30/04/2009 @ 05:38:15: BlackIce_RS: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
2001 Mustang Cobra (not that one, but it looked like that). The dealership was having a big 'we have too much stuff' sale today, so I thought I'd see if there was anything interesting. There was! It was blocked in, but I got to start it up and rev it a little, whee! At 15 thousand$, I probably
could buy it, but it would be a very bad idea.
Also there was a Jaguar XJR (X300 or X305. Nine thousand and something$), but I didn't get to start that one. It smelled funny inside and I had no headroom.
30/04/2009 @ 18:59:09: badlymad: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
I spotted this nice Cadillac the other day, but only had my crappy cameraphone to take pictures:
30/04/2009 @ 19:40:33: antp: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Found today by my father, another Buick like the one I saw on Saturday:
Regal?
30/04/2009 @ 22:41:57: taxiguy: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Yes, Regal
01/05/2009 @ 12:18:20: antp: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Few finds from this morning:
1986 Chrysler LeBaron 2200cc Turbo 143hp, for sale for 700 €
Chevrolet Blazer, with a recent plate
Opel GT, similar to the one found by 93_Montero recently, with an old-timer plate. It is the one I posted last year there:
http://forum.imcdb.org/forum_topic-3845-Few_pictures_of_an_old_cars_meeting.html (at the same place, actually)
Opel Rekord 1700 with a very old plate
01/05/2009 @ 12:30:33: ingo: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
So the plate is much older than the car?
The GT looks very good, like it would been restored very carefully (due the body-structure there are no orignal GT's left, except single ones from Arizona or other dester-areas).
The Rekord is quite rare, because it's a basic version, but if you look closer, it's junky. I think, it's plenty of horror underneath.
Anyways, it's nice, that such old cars have survived until today. Due the old plate perhaps in first hand.
01/05/2009 @ 12:36:15: antp: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
When I mean "very old", it is from the 1st numbering scheme still active: 1951-1961. There are no older plates than that still in use.
I do not know from when the car is, though
This car is probably owned by old people indeed.
It is probably in a not-so-bad state despite some visible rust, else it would not pass the inspection. My father "lost" a 5-year-old Renault 5 because of that
01/05/2009 @ 12:46:41: antp: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Chevrolet Pickup found by my father:
(with an old-timer plate)
01/05/2009 @ 17:44:37: antp: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Again, found by my father, an Amphicar:
01/05/2009 @ 20:33:38: Gag Halfrunt: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
The Blazer is a European specification model. They were even sold in Britain, in right hand drive, for a few years.
In Germany the €700 LeBaron would no doubt be handed in for the €2,500 scrappage payment.
01/05/2009 @ 21:29:23: taxiguy: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
That Lebaron is very similar to my 600, even has the Turbo engine!
The person who would scrap that car deserves to be scraped with it!
06/05/2009 @ 12:23:38: antp: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
A Ford Mustang with custom plate (they are still in the nnn-Axx series, nnn-Lxx series will be used only in few years)
06/05/2009 @ 13:37:37: G-MANN: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Can anyone tell me what this is?
06/05/2009 @ 16:49:53: 93_Montero: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Yes, I am also wondering what that is in your picture G-mann.
Antp, nice pictures I'm surprised to see the Blazer even if they were sold in Britian (I didn't actually know that).
06/05/2009 @ 18:33:55: antp: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Chevrolet Suburban LS, with an unfortunate tag on the side and a recent license plate:
I hope that all these US cars are not too boring for US members, though they may find these as interesting as are the French ones in USA for us
06/05/2009 @ 20:06:40: chris40: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
06/05/2009 @ 20:50:25: Neptune: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Chevrolet Suburban LS, with an unfortunate tag on the side and a recent license plate:
I hope that all these US cars are not too boring for US members, though they may find these as interesting as are the French ones in USA for us
It’s at least a 1995 model Suburban 1500-Series (Dash appears to be contoured)
The rear view of it shows it has the Weight Distributing Hidden Trailer Tow hitch (robust black bar, under the rear bumper) Inserted into the hitch is obviously the ball mount which the trailer coupler connects too. I can’t remember exactly what the factory hitch looked like for the Suburban, but it appears as though it does has the factory equipped Trailer Tow Package.
Someone has towed something with it at some point. I guess someone wrote something ugly and uncivilized on the side of it ?
06/05/2009 @ 22:23:12: antp: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
Indeed, though that I could not really read the 2nd word
Note the foglamp under the bumper, mandatory for all cars in Belgium
(but unlike other European countries, here the turn indicators can be red and combined with other lights, so for that a US car does not have to get its taillights changed)
07/05/2009 @ 01:59:30: G-MANN: interesting/funny/special cars sightings
I wonder if the graffiti has something to do with it being a big American SUV in Belgium (do they share the same sentiments as the French?).
Thanks Chris! This really caught my eye while I was driving so I took a picture of it (shouldn't really fiddle around with a camera while on a motorway I know)